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OBITUARY.; Marie Edme Patrick Maurice de McMahon. Duke of Magenta.

The Norse sea-kings had a superstitious dread of dying in their beds. The Halls of the Blessed, with their endless feasts and perennial fights, were closed against the craven who died not amid the din of battle, or at least girded with sword and buckler ready to attack the foeman whom the last enemy may have anticipated.

September 09, 1870

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